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A bioeconomic model was developed to investigate the feasibility of
improving the economic return from the fishery for brown shrimp Penaeus
aztecus through cooperative federal and state management closures in the U.S.
Gulf fo Mexico. Four different closure periods were simulated with the model.
The closure options were evaluated for Texas only (current condition) and for
the entire U.S. Gulf of Mexico (proposed condition). The model provided an
accurate biological simulation of the brown shrimp fishery in the Gulf of
Mexico. Each of the evaluated closures gave positive net profits to the
fishery as a whole. However, these benefits were mainly for larger vessels
(greater than 50 feet in length). None of the proposed closures increased the
profits for boats (undocumented vessels of unknown lengths), and only some
closures increased the profits for smaller vessels (Less than 50 feet in
length).
Nance, James M., Edward F. Klima, Peter F. Sheridan, K. Neal Baxter,
Frank J. Patella, and Dennis B. Koi (1988). "Review of the 1987
Texas Closure for the Shrimp Fishery Off Texas and Louisiana."
Report, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service,
Southeast Fisheries Center, Galveston Laboratory, Galveston,
Texas, January, 116 pp.
This report provides information to determine how well the objectives of
the Texas closure regulation were achieved in 1986 and 1987 and to determine
if a 15 nautical mile closure meets all the objectives of the closure
regulation as effectively as a 200 nautical mile closure. Social as well as
economic impacts are discussed.
Nash, Darrel A. and Frederick W. Bell (1969). "An Inventory of Demand
Equations for Fishery Products." Bureau of Commercial Fisheries,
Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 10, July, 31 pp.
This paper contains demand equations that were selected as the most
representative of all those submitted to the conference on fishery product
demand. The respective demand functions were chosen as the best function for
each species so far developed in that area.
National Academy of Sciences (1979). "Basic Productivity Concepts:
Meaning and Measurement." Chapter 3 in Measurement and
Interpretation of Productivity, Washington, D.C.
This chapter develops the concept of productivity within the framework
of production theory by means of empirical production functions. It explains
how partial productivity and multi-factor productivity may be measured within
the framework of the economic accounts. It develops further the concepts of
output and inputs that underlie the productivity relationship.
National Marine Fisheries Service (1974). "Status of Shrimp Industry:
August 1974", Southeast Regional Office, St. Petersburg, Florida,
September, 7 pp.
The shrimp industry in the Gulf and south Atlantic is suffering severe
economic hardship. Vessel owners are caught in a unprecedented cost-price
squeeze and the average vessel is not even covering variable costs at present.
Since September 1973, Gulf shrimp prices have fallen an average of 41 percent,
while variable costs have risen substantially. Nonetheless, most vessels
continue to fish for reasons that include the fisherman's eternal hope for the
"big catch." If conditions do not change, many vessel operators will probably
be forced out of the fishery by January 1975. Shrimp processors, principally
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